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Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

SIDNEY (-ner'), an Amer- , Ga., Feb. 3 ), an Amerthese may again be subdivided. Thus ican poet; born in Macon , Ga., Feb. 3, the Germanic branch includes Mæsoor the dialect of the Goths of 1842. He served in the Confederate Confederate Gothic, army as a private soldier; studied law, studied law, Mæsia; the Low German languages, and practiced it at Macon; but abanand devoted hima: but abanstill spoken in the north of Germany, important cultivated doned that profession till devoted hizmand including two Engself to music and poetry. From 1879 English lit- Front 1879 till tongues, the Netherlandish and of diahis death he was lecturer on English litlish; the High-German body erature in Johns Hopkins University. University. lects, represented now by only a single The poem "Corn," one of his earliest his earliest literary language, the so-called German; division, written in "The Bee," pieces (1874), and "Clover," "The Bee," and the Scandinavian the forms of Danish, Swedish Swedish, Norwe- . The Semitic family gian and Icelandic . of languages is the next in importance It includes Arabic, Syrian, or Aramaic, the Canaanitish dialects, chief among which are Hebrew and Phœnician, and the Assyrian and Babylonian dialects. In music, in an organ an open metal flue pipe consists of foot, and language, and body. The language is a flat piece of metal fastened by its edge to the top of the foot, and which, by its shape, only permits the air to leave the foot in one direction. LANGUE DE - BŒUF (long-duhbuhf'), a military implement, consisting afof a broad-pointed blade, which was fixed to a staff, and received its name from its resemblance to an ox's tongue.